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The accusations are flying thick and fast between former NYC Mayor Ed Koch and Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos, who are locked in a battle of wills over redistricting reform. The Manhattan Democrat and Long Island Republican exchanged heated letters yesterday over what Koch views as the Senate Republicans’ renegging on their collective promise to …

Ed Koch is mailing letters today to Albany lawmakers who signed on to his New York Uprising pledge to support non-partisan redistricting but are now reneging on their word.
The timing, Koch says, is because some lawmakers said that they wanted to wait … …

Senate Republicans should be receiving a letter this morning from former NYC Mayor Ed Koch. As you probably guessed, he is calling them out for failing to live up to the pledge they made to him to support a non-partisan redistricting commission. In the letter, Koch informs the Senators that their districts are on his …

Former NYC Mayor Ed Koch has had it with Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos’ claims that redistricting reform is a non-issue for the remainder of the legislative session now that his conference has passed its constitutional amendment bill. After Skelos said last night on “Inside City Hall” that he has no plans to revisit this …

Ed Koch responds to John Liu’s email complaining about naming the Queensboro Bridge after the former mayor.
What’s interesting in Koch’s response is where he describes Liu meeting him to seek his support during the 2009 comptroller’s race, which came, … …

Shortly after city lawmakers voted to rename a bridge after former Mayor Ed Koch, they received an email from the City Comptroller, complaining of a “double standard.”
“I’m unable to hold back,” City Comptroller John Liu wrote in a 5:31 a.m. email ad… …

Health Care: “despite all the talk about repealing, scaling back or striking down, this massive, complicated package of new laws is, for the most part, the same as it was a year ago.” [Anna Sale]
Leaked Budget Memo: “What strikes me as interesting here… …

The latest videos from the Human Rights Campaign released today feature former mayors Ed Koch and David Dinkins.
“I’m a New Yorker who supports marriage equality” Koch says. “Join me as a New Yorker for marriage equality,” Dinkins says in his video.
Th… …

Quinnipiac is out with a hodgepodge of numbers on NYC issues:
Wal-Mart57-36 percent say electeds should allow a Wal-Mart to open here.
68-29 percent say they’d shop there once open.
Last In, First Out78-16 percent say teacher layoffs should be NOT done… …

Former Mayor Ed Koch addressed the Downtown-Lower Manhattan Association yesterday, and according to two sources there, he made his feelings about 2013 pretty clear, telling the crowd that he supported police commissioner Ray Kelly for Mayor in 2013. An… …